Frazer Nash Archive Photos
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Bob Schmitt
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These are great Frazer Nash photos sent by Jim Trigwell on February 23, 2000, from the Frazer Nash Archives and the Ludvigsen Library, The Mille Miglia below, S/N 421/100/168, is my car from the AFN Archives. The narrative on the back states it is Stuart Donaldson & Commander Jipson at Floyd Bennett Field. I think the aircraft is a Grumman F9F Panther or Cougar. Mr. Donaldson is listed as the original owner of several Frazer Nash's brought into the United States and he may have been operating as an importer/dealer.
This Mille Miglia, S/N 421/100/124, photo is from the Ludvigsen Library. It is presumably driven by Bob Wonder in about 1954. Jim has asked for help to confirm the driver, date and location if possible.
More Mille Miglias! These are also from the Frazer Nash archives, sent by Jim Trigwell on January 30, 1999.
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This Archive photo is the same Jim Lowe Le Mans Replica pictured below, after being re-bodied in San Francisco by Nadeau Bourgeault:
This picture is from the January-February 1956 issue of "Sports Car", a publication of the SCCA. It was taken at the Sacramento sports car races for the Governor's Cup:
Geoff Dowdle sent these photos in July, 1999. They were taken in New Zealand when Bill Clarke owned this car. It's a Mille Miglia, S/N 421/100/161, the same car as photos.# 2 and #3 above, 40+ years later.
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Geoff sent the following in August, 1999. The Mille Miglia is S/N 421/100/167, built the same time as my Mille Miglia. The Targa Florio is S/N 421/200/198. Geoff wrote that Targa Florio photos are about 20 years old and this car is now green.
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The Raid!
Geoff sent these photos of the Frazer Nash Raid to the Alps in June, 1999. They were taken by a participant from Australia, John Dymond. This was a pre-event report from Jim Trigwell:
"Today I am off to the Italian Alps with my wife Eileen in our LeMans Replica together with 68 other FNs, mainly pre-war. It has been organized by the FN Section of the Vintage Sports Car Club and entails a 2 week trip to Italy and back to commemorate successes for Frazer Nash in the Alpine Rallies of the mid 1930s.
Actually the FN did rather well in Alpine Rallies in the 1950s, winning an Alpine Cup for an unpenalized run in this arduous rally in 1951, 1953 and 1954 (in chassis S/N 156, 005 & 164 respectively). Therefore it is entirely appropriate that I should be taking my post-war Nash. There are 5 other post war cars entered - S/N 153, 158, 170, 202 & 210 - so including mine, that's 5 LMRs and one Coupe in all. No. 153 is the car Stirling Moss drove to win the Isle of Man race in 1951 and it is now owned and will be driven to Italy by John Aldington.
We will have runs over some of the famous Alpine passes plus plenty of food, wine and chatter along the way. Some mountain villages will entertain us with brass bands and festivals as well as one speed sprint through the market square. We will also have dinner at the famous Schlumpf Museum of Bugatti's in France on the way home."
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Another Raid photo, this one from Andrew Green, of Mark Morris' Le Mans Replica. This is proper motoring!
This is a LeMans Replica (s/n 421/100/157) when it was owned by Michael Burn and John Michelsen. The photo is from John Kerridge's collection.
Finally, just a reminder of where Frazer Nash got started. John Kerridge, who lives near San Diego, sent the photo below of his 1926 Frazer Nash. He's restoring it and expects to enter it in vintage racing events in the spring, 2000. John says the history he has shows it was raced successfully at Brooklands in the 30's under the name "Abbott-Nash". He's looking details of its racing history in the late 40's, when it's reported to also have been raced extensively.
In the late 50's, it was used in VSCC events in the UK, with significant success. It was then called the "Acedes-Nash", but John says it's really it's "just" a Frazer Nash. I think it looks great!
And here's John driving this car at Holtville, after its completion:
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